Word: riches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn my pockets out to show I am harmless." He would, he said, refuse any invitations to visit U.S. military installations. He was not going to the U.S. to find out how strong the U.S. is-"One would be stupid not to know that the U.S. is strong and rich...
...also skate was next to impossible. The artistic integrity of the performance (if any) is saved by Leny Eversong, a Brazilian woman of indeterminate age but unavoidable size (5 ft. 5 in., 284 Ibs.). From somewhere between her strawberry blonde hair and her flashing silver gown, she produces a rich, round voice with a rhythmic finesse reminiscent of Mildred Bailey. All by herself she is worth the price of admission...
...list is rich with names-Olivier, Guinness, Bergman, Booth, Robards, Merman, Hope, Berle. The live drama, the comedies, the variety shows they will star in will be balanced by an ambitious slate including opera, public affairs, sports, education and adventure. There will be a record 250 hours of colorcasts...
Diabolic Ties. It was in this setting that Proust met the original of Swann, Charles Haas, who referred to himself as "the only Jew ever to be accepted by Parisian society without being immensely rich." Perhaps the most decadent and diabolical habitue of the salons was Comte Robert de Montesquieu, the original of Proust's depraved but magnificently Lear-like Baron de Charlus. Montesquiou was tall and thin, with a Kaiser mustache...
...Eggs. Next day Nixon and his swelling entourage-"This is beginning to look like Coxey's Army," cracked one U.S. correspondent-headed east to Russia's great Siberian hinterland, where the earth is black and rich, and sunflowers (grown for their commercial oil) lattice the countryside with gold. Here, in "closed" cities that no Americans save a handful of dignitaries have been allowed-to visit in years, Nixon's trip turned into an impromptu triumph...